Do you spell things the British way or the American way?

[Person]

I got a little curious. What I mean by the title is, do you spell words like this: apologise, centre, defence (British) or like this: apologize, center, defense (American) I'm not British, but I think the way they spell words is better in my opinion. So, how do you spell words?

[Triple G]

Sir Seanicus, Esq. a écrit :

England: colour
America: color
England: humour
America: humor
England: flavour
America: flavor
England: what are you doing?
America: Getting rid of u.

1776.

Legend says that it´s the other way around. Like usually immigrants are more traditional than the people in their home countries, as they´re not so aware of the changes there.

So it´s most likely that American English is more in line with some older English.

That´s what i heard, even if the joke is neat of course.

[Electric Cupcake]

Triple G a écrit :

Sir Seanicus, Esq. a écrit :

England: colour
America: color
England: humour
America: humor
England: flavour
America: flavor
England: what are you doing?
America: Getting rid of u.

1776.

Legend says that it´s the other way around. Like usually immigrants are more traditional than the people in their home countries, as they´re not so aware of the changes there.

So it´s most likely that American English is more in line with some older English.

That´s what i heard, even if the joke is neat of course.

There is some truth to that. Even in the UK, some commentators praised Daniel Noah Webster and other New Englanders for preserving the proper Queen's English and bemoaned the motherland drifting away from it.

Wrong guy. My bad.

[apathy]

Mix of both. American British English.

[Electric Cupcake]

apathy a écrit :

Mix of both. American British English.

Is that different from the Mid-Atlantic dialect?

[Charles]

American.

[Xero_Daxter]

American way. 1 less letter I gotta deal with.

For example. Color > Colour

[AlienTestosterone]

Texan way

[Xero_Daxter]

AlienTestosterone a écrit :

Texan way

Sounding like Sandy Cheeks from Spongebob.

[Medified]

Crawdad

[Effigy]

british way, since i'm from new zealand and that's what we use here

[aka]

The British invented language, the Americans invented spork. I spell the British way out of respect for the greatest empire in all of creation.


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